Posted on 05/24/2005 12:58:15 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have arrested 140 people in a nationwide raid of unlicensed money transmittal businesses and underground "hawalas," seizing more than $25.5 million in illicit proceeds bound for the Middle East and Southwest Asia, ICE officials said yesterday. Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Michael J. Garcia, who heads ICE, said the agents -- acting under the authority of the USA Patriot Act -- ?shut down? several businesses that had transferred millions of dollars to Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran. The probe netted 138 criminal indictments.
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How many halawas operators are located in South of our borders countries? Billion$ are sent South every year from the USA in money orders with few questions asked. Just wondering??
Hope they put that money into the Social Security Trust fund. LOL
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